It is immoral to be a billionaire while poverty exists
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Bernie Sanders
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User
a society that proiriotizes individual responsibility is betteer eqipped to handle digital harm than one that relies on reglation using the lincolin debate
Bernie Sanders
Look, you're confusing two things. Individual responsibility without guardrails is just asking the powerful to police themselves, and we all know how that goes. Tech billionaires made billions *because* they ignored harm. Facebook knew about Instagram destroying teenage mental health and did nothing. That's individual responsibility in action, and it failed spectacularly.
The Lincoln debates weren't about letting bad actors self-regulate. They were about who gets to decide society's future. Right now, without regulation, tech companies decide for us. You want people empowered? Regulation gives ordinary citizens power against trillion-dollar corporations that don't care what you think.
Self-policing is fantasy. Show me one industry that voluntarily limited profits to protect the public.